Fantastic news for kids/possibly the worst news for parents who are just so, so tired today from THR’sBorys Kit:Hotel Transylvania 4is in the works over at Sony Pictures Animation and currently slated to hit theaters on June 15, 2025.
The series—which is toplined byAdam Sandleras Count Dracula and counts names likeAndy Samberg,Selena Gomez, andSteve Buscemiamong its cast—has been a surprising success for SPA since the originalHotel Transylvaniabanked $148 million at the domestic box office. The latest entry, last year’sHotel Transylvania: Summer Vacation, took in $167.5 million butHotel Transylvania 2remains SPA’s highest-earner domestically with $169.7 million, topping titles likeSpider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseandGoosebumps. (Summer Vacationis the winner worldwide, where it took in a massive $528.6 million.)
It’ll be interesting to see ifStars Wars: Clone WarscreatorGenndy Tartakovsky—who has directed all three films in the franchise—will return for the fourth entry. When Colliderspoke to the filmmakerforSummer Vacation, Tartakovsky noted he wasn’t even going to come back forthatfilm amid the Sony e-mail hack.
“Meanwhile, we’re trying to get this movie done, and so it was a very tumultuous end, and everybody got fired and replaced. Right. Almost at the very end, so Tom Rothman came in, Kristine Belson came in, and so all of a sudden everybody that you were making the movie with is gone, and now there’s all these new people, and the movie’s successful, thank god, and then now what. It was a tough experience making it, and so I was like, “Well, I’m just out. This will be easy. I wouldn’t do this under these conditions again.”
Tartakovsky evidently decided to return forSummer Vacationwhen inspiration struck while, appropriately enough, he was on summer vacation with his family. But time will tell whether the studio can woo the animator back for yet another round with the spookiest of cartoon crews.
